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BfK No. 74 - May 1992

Cover Story
This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture

BfK No. 74 Articles

Editorial – May 1992

News and comment from the Editor.
Children Writing Their Own Books

Paul Johnson on Children's Book Art.
Wordless Picture Books

Jeff Hynds on Books Without Words and Philippe Dupasquier on Writing Pictures.
Authorgraph No.74: Victor Ambrus

Victor Ambrus interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.
May We Recommend... Philip Pullman

Geoff Fox looks at the novels of Philip Pullman.
Reader Makers

A round-up of recent Picture Books by Trevor Dickinson.
BfK Briefing – May 1992

News * Awards * Events
Awards: Mother Goose and The Guardian

Charlotte Voake and Stephanie Nettell report.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 74

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Ages 14+

Under 5s

  • The Little Dog Laughed and other nursery rhymes
    Lucy Cousins

  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
    Tony Bradman

  • The Quilt
    Ann Jonas

  • Morag and the Lamb
    Joan Lingard

  • Little Rabbit Foo Foo
    Michael Rosen

  • My Hippopotamus is on our Caravan Roof Getting Sunburnt
    Hazel Edwards

  • Little Penguin
    Patrick Benson

  • A Boy Wants a Dinosaur
    Hiawyn Oram

  • The Grumpalump
    Sarah Hayes

Ages 5-8

  • Aluminium ¦ Paper
    Sally Morgan
    Pauline Lalor

  • Two Travellers
    Christopher Manson

  • Tom Thumb
    Richard Jesse Watson

  • Just Jack
    Mary Hoffman

  • The Dinosaur Diner and Other Poems
    Paul Sidey

  • A Second Golden Treasury of Animal Verse

  • Egg Poems ¦ Ghost Poems ¦ Snow Poems ¦ Sea Poems

  • Tilly's Rescue
    Faith Jaques

  • Jamaica Tag-Along
    Juanita Havill

  • Our House
    Emma Rogers
    Paul Rogers

  • Somewhere in Africa
    Ingrid Mennen
    Niki Daly

  • Mrs Goat and her Seven Little Kids
    Tony Ross

Ages 8-10

  • Looking after your hamster ¦ Looking after your rabbits
    Helen Piers

  • Graphs and Charts ¦ Measurement ¦ Multiplying and Dividing ¦ Shape
    Karen Bryant-Mole

  • Land Ahoy! The story of Christopher Columbus
    Scoular Anderson

  • Only Miranda
    Tessa Krailing

  • Imran's Secret
    Nadya Smith

  • The Real Life Dinosaur and other stories
    Kenneth Lillington

  • Twin and Supertwin
    Gillian Cross

  • Tim Kipper
    Robert Swindells

  • The Devil in the Dustbin
    Indi Rana

  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
    Brothers Grimm

  • Alphabet Cousins
    Catherine Robinson

  • The Model Village
    Nicholas Fisk

Ages 10-14

  • Understanding Modern Art
    Monica Bohm-Duchen

  • Transport in Europe
    Mark Smalley

  • The Aliens are Coming: plant life and the Greenhouse effect
    Phil Gates

  • The Young Vegetarian's A-Z
    Debra Shipley

  • Kickback
    Michael Hardcastle

  • AK
    Peter Dickinson

  • Just Like the Movies
    Patricia Windsor

  • A Can of Worms and other stories
    Jan Mark

  • The Kingdom by the Sea
    Robert Westall

  • Mythical Creatures
    Bert Kitchen

  • Make Like a Tree and Leave
    Paula Danziger

  • The Mink War
    Gene Kemp

  • The Lake at the End of the World
    Caroline Macdonald

  • Taking the Ferry Home
    Pam Conrad

  • Dear Mum, You're Ruining My Life
    Jean Van Leeuwen

  • Change the Locks
    Simon French

  • Hero
    Allan Baillie

  • Starchild and Witchfire
    David Henshall

  • Waiting for Anya
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Not Just Jemima
    Sally Christie

Ages 14+

  • Digital Vampires
    Laurence Staig

  • Point Horror: The Boyfriend
    R L Stine

  • The Game
    Enid Richemont

  • Wolf
    Gillian Cross

  • The Duplicate ¦ Strange Attractors
    William Sleator

  • The Maple Moon
    Patrick Raymond

  • Alex in Winter
    Tessa Duder

  • On Foreign Ground
    Eduardo Quiroga

  • The Flither Pickers
    Theresa Tomlinson

  • The Voyage of the Frog
    Gary Paulsen

  • Brother Night
    Victor Kelleher

  • Daz 4 Zoe
    Robert Swindells

  • Bad Penny
    Allan Frewin Jones
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